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No. 315
.harp Protest Sent Mexico Over Oil Deal.
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Severe Storm
Hits Western
Canada Areas
School Bus Driver, Also
Garage Man Missing;
Blizzard Rages
Four Apparently Killed
in Mystery Blast on
Cannery Tender
CALGARY, Alta., March 30.-
PWWednesday)-Unttl the bliz
sard sweeping the Parkland dis
trict abates, no attempt will be
made to search for Mrs. K
Brown, driver of a school bus
and Austin Nixon, garage opera
tor, missing since,, early Tuesday,
It was reported early today.
"We do not believe they are
In any danger," said H. Hansen,
municipal councillor of Parkland
"It is likely they sought shelter
in nearby farmhouses."
Covering a 10-mile route, Mrs.
Brown was to have picked up 12
children, pupils of the Parkland
school. Nixon, who started in
search of the bus at noon today,
was missing tonight.
The blissard continued un
abated through the south country
tonight, described as the worst In
years, Isolating towns and villages
and blocking highway traffic
Snowdrifts were from five to eight
feet high in many districts. Heavy
loss of rangeland livestock was
feared. '
REGINA, Sask., March 29.-UP)
-Roofs were ripped from build
ings- at Eastend, snowdrifts were
piled 10 feet high in Swift Cur
rent district and a blanket of snow
of almost two inches fell over
most of southern Sasketchewan to
night as" a blizzard swept eastward
from Alberta.
At Eastend, in what was Saskat
chewan's hardest hit drought area,
a snow and windstorm ripped the
roof and chimney from the town
school, blew doors down at the
Minall machine shop, took out a
window in the MacGregor drug
store and part of the front of the
Pastime theatre, lifted the roof
from the Wright and Jickling
Hardware store and blew off the
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Jury Selected to
Try Howard Mass
HILLSBORO, March 29.-JF)-
A jury ot seven men, four of them
farmers, and five women was
agreed upon Jy the state and de
fense today several hours after
the trial of Howard A. Mass
Clackamas county deputy sheriff,
began on an indictment charging
larceny of public funds.
Mass is the son of Sheriff E. T.
Mass, who also was indicted and
In whose case a jury recently dis
agreed at Oregon City. The son
sought a change of venue.
d d 1 tics
... in the News
TRENTON, N J... March 29.-
(JPV-Pretty Ada Hoffman. 19-year
old daughter of former Gov. Har
old G. Hoffman, visited the state
senate last night and was intro
duced by Senate President Loi
seaux. : ' .
"I've only been here a few min
utes," she said, "but I don't think
the senators are as bad as daddy
cracked them up to be."
KANSAS CITY, March 29.
(P) Fortunately for Jesse C
Long a fragment of plaster fell
plop over his face early this
morning.
Fortnntely because Long,
sole occupant f a two-story
frame house, was asleep and the
building was on fire.
Long awoke with a start. He
grabbed trousers - and . shoes,
barely got out of the bouse be
fore flames barred the door.
SYRACUSE, N. Y., March 29.-(JF)-C
ommissloner of Public
Works George H. Ballantyne con
sidered the warm spring weather
and decided to put. the street
flushing machinery at work.
He sent two trucks out. Down
one of the main streets spraying at
capacity. In tandem, they went. -
They passed a parked automo
bile. Out from under It crawled Its
owner, soaking wet.
."Did you have to start on this
street! he shouted.'
CHICAGO, March 29.-JP)-A
keeper handed "Bushman,'
SoO-pound gorilla, his birthday
present today and then ran to
beat sixty.
"Bushman, a 10 - year old
$20,000 beast, prido of Lincoln
park zoo, likes to share his food
with his keepers. He throws It
at them.
The birthday present was an
angel food cake plastered iritb
whipped cream. .
Only Two City Filings
By Candidais Comply
With Lr& Discovered
Failure to Show Prtoincts
General but Most Will
Thinks Recorder;
The city recorder's office was thrown into a semi-panicky
state yesterday when it was
there by men seeking nomination to city offices had filed
within the strict letter of the
All but two David O'Hara
pirants to seats on the city council, to the mayor's, city re
corder's or city treasurer's offices,'
failed to circulate their petitions
according to precincts as the law
provides.
The law states: ' There shall be
a separate leaf or sheet signed on
every petition for each precinct
in which it is circulated."
Discrepancy in filings was re
vealed when It was brought to
the attention of County Clerk
U. G. Boyer by Alderman David
O'Hara, in a telephone communi
cation in regard to matters per
taining to the county. As soon as
Clerk Boyer verified the law, he
notified City Recorder Warren A.
Jones.
However, the situation' is not
as bad as it surfacely appeared,
according to Recorder Jones.
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League of Gties
To Convene Here
Municipal Officials From
Nearby Cities Gather
at Noon, Planned
Officials of 18 cities will con
vene here today in the 25th re
gional conference of the League
of Oregon Cities to discuss -problems
pertinent to city govern
ments. A banquet at the Quelle restau
rant at noon will begin the con
ference, with Salem City Recorder
A. Warren Jones acting as toast
master. Following the banquet
the gathering will either remain
at the restaurant or adjourn to
the chamber of commerce quar
ters for conferences.
Salem's Mayor V. E. Kuhn,
president of the league, returned
from attending the Eugene re
gional conference last night and
said the subject receiving most
attention there was that city's la
bor picket ordinance.
Questions that are due for dis
cussion today, according to Mayor
Kuhn, include: Redistribution of
gasoline and liquor tax monies;
traffic regulation within cities;
role of cities in labor disputes and
control of picketing; problem of
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Blanket Project
Items Divided up
Five county road WPA Jobs
were placed on an individual
project oasis this week under a
program of dividing up the old
$1,110,000 blanket project al
located to Marion county Septem
ber 25, 1935, it was announced
at WPA headquarters here yes
terday. Since the blanket project
came into being in effect the WPA
has spent $600,000 of the allot
ment, it was estimated. The re
mainder of the huge fund is still
available but will be reallocated
to unit projects as rapidly as
possible.
The new unit projects, crew
foremen, n n m b e r of men em
ployed and estimated costs are as
follows:
Roberts-Independence ferry,
south river road Bob Cole, fore
man; 80 men, $18,274.
Roads southeast of Gervals
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Quantity Gasoline Purchase
By County in '80s Is Puzzle
A mystery which Marlon coun
ty's oldest employes can not ex
plain has been unearthed in the
volumes recording proceedings of
the county court In the 1880s.
Deputy County Clerk C. C. Ward
disclosed yesterday.
What, the mystery Is, could
the county court have been do
ing with gasoline in 100-gallon
lots 50 years - ago, when gaso
line engines were rarities and
the automobile scarcely born?
: But the old journals record
that in 1884, for Instance, the
court paid for 200 gallons of
gasoline, freighted In from Cali
fornia over the Oregon-California
railroad, at a price of 40 cents
a gallon. And Journals of other
years In the same decade report
purchases of gasoline 100 gal
lons at a time and two or three
times a year, according to C
F. Burt, who with Harold Snook,
Is gathering data preparatory to
of Petition Signers Is
Be Found Sufficient,
to Notify Others.
learned that but two filings
election laws.
and Ralph Kletzing, of as
Six Projects Are
Started by WPA
Largest Is State Forestry
Building; One Drainage
Job in City Begun
Six WPA projects estimated to
cost $80,686 were begun in Ma
rion county 'communities yester
day and Monday, according to lo
cal WPA officials. Two are lo
cated in Salem, two in Stayton,
one in Woodburn and one at the
Buena Crest school near Brooks.
The largest Salem project is
construction of the state forestry
department administration build
ing at Montana avenue and State
street, to cost $37,460 of which
the state is contributing $18,540.
The other Salem project is one
for drainage of an old North Mill
creek channel around the island
immediately below the North
Capitol street bridge, at a cost of
$2652, of which adjoining prop
erty owners will bear $292. The
project will Include the erection
of a control dam to be used in the
summer months to keep a small
amount of water' flowing through
the channel end. eliminate stag
nancy and breeding of mosqui
toes.
The Stayton projects are one of
sidewalk and storm sewer con
struction, costing $6570, and an
other of replacing old water
mains with larger ones, costing
$10,025. The city of Stayton will
pay $1138 of the cost of the
former and $4254 on the latter.
The Woodburn project is a
continuation of the sewing room
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Clear Skies but
Frosts Forecast
Threat of frosts followed last
night on the heels of an unseas
onable spring snowstorm that yes
terday morning blanketed Salem
lawns for a few hours. The wea
ther bureau predicted fair wea
ther and frosts for both today and
Thursday.
The present month will go
down as at least the fourth wet
test in the history of local wea
ther records. A quarter Inch of
precipitation listed for yesterday
pushed the month's total to ap
proximately 8 inches. Not since
1928 has March brought more
than eight Inches of rain. The rec
ord March rainfall was 10.13 in
ches, recorded in 1894 with 1916
next at 9.96 and 1904 third at
9.04 inches.
Since March 13, 96 inches of
snow has fallen at the Silver Falls
Logging company's camp No. 18,
it was reported yesterday.
Portland Companies Buy
Issue of Roseburg Bonds
ROSEBURG, March 29-flP)-Four
Portland companies joined
to bid successfully tor $80,000 in
school district bonds, proceeds
from which will be used to con
struct two new grade schools. The
offer was a premium of one cent
per $100 on 3 per cent bonds,
which mature in 1952.
setting up an index of the old
records.
County Judge Siegmund has no
idea what the gasoline, charged
up to the courthouse and jail
account, could have been for, he
said yesterday, and County Clerk
Boyer was equally puzzled. D. G
"Dave Drager,- county treasurer,
and his assistant, York Richard
son, who are p r o b a b 1 y the
county's oldest employes In point
of service, also could not answer
the question.
Treasurer Drager said further
that the first gasoline engine
he ever saw was one being oper
ated In Alaska in 1897.
The old records reveal many
more bits of history that today
seem oddities. They tell, for
example, that In 1884 the county
court agreed to pay one-halt the
cost of Installing u telephone In
the courthouse, provided county
. . . (Turn to Page 2, Col. 2)
Skiis Provide
Only Clue to
Guef f roy Fate
Fear He Wandered Into
White River Canyon
Now Expressed
Jacket and Mittens Are
Found in Car; Sixty
Engage in Search
T1MBERLIXE, Ore., Mount
Hood National Forest, March 29
JP)-A pair of skiis, thrust up
right into a snowdrift high on
storm-swept Mount Hood, offer
ed the only clue today to the
disappearance of Russell Gueff
roy, 29, believed the second vic
tim . ol Sunday's : ght from a
frigid storm near the summit.
The skiis were found in deep
snow about 1000 feet above Lone
Fir lookout station, and fear was
expressed that Gueffroy, a Van
couver, Wash., man, had wan
dered into the desolate White
river canyon.
Gueffroy was missed last night
when members of the Mazama
Mountain Climbing club, review
ing at Portland the tragic details
of an adventure resulting in the
death of Roy Varney, 47, learned
he had not checked in.
A search of his automobile,
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Pendergast Holds
Kansas City Rule
Wins Back one of Council
Seats; Is Sarcastic
About Opponents
KANSAS CITY. March 29-tfy-
The democratic slate of Tom Pen
dergast, one of the most power
ful city bosses in the nation won
a quiet election today, running
bis period of unbroken rule at
the city hall to 16 years.
He increased his council mem
bershlp but a coalition of re
publicans and indeperdent dem
ocrats made such a fight of it
that his majority did not seem
likely" to reach 45,000. Four
years ago, his organization turned
back a similar combination
known then as the fusionists by
a majority of 59,000 vut the op
position then won two council
seats.
Today Pendergast won one of
those back, assuring him seven
coalitionist, Charles P. Wood
bury, led in a southwestern dis
trict council race by 1,000 and
appeared to be a probable victor.
The vote in 425 out of 460
precincts gave Pendergast's
mayor Bryce B. Smith 107,299
votes for reelection 'o. 66,373 for
the coalitionist candidate. Col.
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Linn Court to Eve
Courthouse Funds
ALBANY, March 29.-P-The
Linn county court will hold a
public hearing on May 7 on its
decision to apply a $238,560 sur
plus to the construction of a court
house. In the absence of objections
the application would occur June
4 and work started on July 1.
The court will propose erec
tion of a courthouse without fed
eral assistance. The undertaking
would not involve a tax levy be
cause available funds were ade
quate, Judge J. J. Barrett said.
The project was approved at a
special election in August. The
district attorney subsequently
ruled thii the court was commit
ted to a provision to build only
upon acquiring a federal grant,
according to terms of the vote.
He said the public would have to
be consulted before the program
was changed.
Greiner Boy Hurt
When Car Strikes
Jackie Greiner, young son of
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Greiner of
route 7, is In the Salem General
hospital suffering with a frac
tured skull, sustained when he
was struck down while riding a
bicycle Just north of the under
pass on the Pacific highway about
4:30 yesterday afternoon.
The car that struck him was
driven by Ralph H. Gay of Eu
gene, state police said last night.
Oregon Chinook Eludes
Mercola, of Byrd Party
GRANTS PASS, March 29-P)-Hoping
ofr a thrill of another
kind, Raymond Mercola, who went
to the Antarctic with Admiral
Richard Byrd In 1929, arrived
here today to catch a. Chinook
salmon. None h a v e yet been
seen.
HOOD SLOPES
Trace of Russell Gueffroy, 29, inset above, son of liev. and Mrs. W. A. Gueffroy ot 8alemv ta sought in
the territory on the southern slopes of Mt. Hood shown in the drawing. Mr. Gueffroy, of Vancouver,
Wash., was last seen after he had assisted in the rescue of Roy Varney, who later died, above Lone
Fir cabin. Skiis which may have belonged to Gueffroy were found above the lookout station, causing
searchers to fear that he had wandered Into White River canyon. Cut courtesy Oregon Journal.
Photo of Gueffroy by Coffey.
Reorganization Is
Studied by House
Four Bills May Substitute
for Senate's Measure;
Fight Is Certain
WASHINGTON, March 29.-P)
-House leaders, with republicans
bucking the procedure, ordered
speedy action today on govern
ment reorganization legislation.
Signs of trouble appeared im
mediately after democratic mem
bers of a special reorganization
committee had agreed to merge
four house reorganization bills in
to one and offer it to the house as
a substitute for the measure the
senate approved yesterday.
They decided sot to make any
attempt to restrict amendments.
' Speaker Bankhead said other
legislation might be laid aside to
make room for house considera
tion of the reorganization pro
gram Thursday or Friday. He
added:
"Of course there will be con
troversy over it. There is no doubt
about that. I want the house to
have a fair opportunity to pass
judgment on It."
Way Geared for
Boycott Removal
PORTLAND, March 2 9-P-
jack scnaiant, official of the
AFL Teamsters union, said to
night drivers for the Holman
Fuel company nad rejoined the
AFL and cleared the way for
removal of a boycott on the In-man-Poulsen
Lumber company.
The drivers voted yesterday to
remain with the CIO. Schalaht
said scheduled removal of the
lumber company boycott would
be opposed by teamsters unless
the drivers of the iael company.
supplied by Inman-Po lsen. Join
ed mill workers in returning to
the AFL.
The I n m a n - Poulsen is the
seventh of 10 local mills at
which the AFL claims" to hare re
gained a majority since workers
bolted to the CIO art precipi
tated an inter-union struggle last
August. -
Dr. Melville , G. Evans
Of Portland Is Victim
Of Monoxide Poisoning
PORTLAND, i March t.-Jfy-
Coroner's Deputy Gideon Snook
said the body of Dr. Melville G
Evans, 65, dead of carbon mon
oxide poisoning, was found early
today in his garage.
Snook said Dr. Evans had been
suffering from a stomach disorder
which he believed to be cancer.
and was to have entered a hos
pital for treatment today.
SEARCHED FOR
Picket Licensing
Bill Is Attacked
EUGENE, March 29.-;P)-Vig-
orous protests from a university
professor, a labor leader and a
representative of WPA and other
relief clients, delivered to the city
council Monday night against a
new picket regulating ordinance,
were passed on today to the coun
cil in the capacity of a committee
of the whole.
The council thus for the time
being at least took no action on
the ordinance, which requires
that labor unions desiring to es
tablish a picket line must prove
that a legitimate labor dispute
exists and must pay a license fee
if the picketing is approved.
Larceny Suspect
Held at Medford
MEDFORD, March 29.-
District Attorney Frank J. New
man prepared today to send fin
gerprints and other data on Ivan
Dmitri Alexander Barbientiensky,
alias John Radchff, to the de
partment of justice and immi
gration service.
Held here on a charge of lar
ceny of an automobile, the pris
oner claimed to be an amnesia
victim, Newman said, and insisted
be had no recollection of an as
serted marriage with a Del Rio,
Tex., woman last December. New
man said he previously had been
examined by alienists at Santa
Barbara, Calif., and they conclud
ed "the only cure rests with him
self." Newman said he was unusually
well educated and a brilliant lin
guist.
Five Bands j Novel Features
To Mark Big Spring Opening
With close to a hundred bus
iness firms participating, and an
automobile show, five bands and
s e v e r al marching organizations
adding further color to the affair.
Spring Opening, set for tomorrow
night will be the gayest given
good weather Salem has teen in
years.
A new departure animated
window displays will be intro
duced this year for the first time
on a city-wide scale. Many leading
department and ready - to - wear
stores are arranging to have man
nequins In their windows model
ing new spring apparel. The store
whose windows are adjudged the
"most unique will be awarded a
prize by the Salem Ad club, spon
sors of Spring Opening.
Prospect of inclement weather
receded as yesterday's afternoon
sun dispelled snow, squalls which
pelted the city early in the week
and. Graham Sharkey, spring open
ing committee chairman, was con
K. GUEFFROY
Ledford Jury Has
Case; not Agreed
Locked up for Night; Last
Arguments Stress Lack
of Poison, Berries
ST. HELENS, Ore., March 29
-(JPy-A circuit court jury offarm-
ers and small town residents re
tired this afternoon to consider
five possible verdicts in the trial
of Mrs. Agnes Joan Ledford, 35,
charged with the poison death of
her two step-daughters.
The jury . was removed to a
hotel and locked up for the night
when it failed to reach a verdict
by 10:15 p.m.
The housewife ( ill since her ar
rest last October, may die in the
lethal gas chamber, be sentenced
to life imprisonment, be convicted
of second degree murder, man
slaughter, or acquitted.
She was tried for the death ot
Ruth Ledford, 13, last Septem
ber 6. Another indictment charges
she poisoned Dorothy Ledford,
15, who died two days later.
In a rebuttal summation for
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Sentencing of Anderson
Delayed at Oregon City
OREGON CITY, March 29. -(iT)
-The sentencing of Albert E. An
derson ot Salem, convicted of
manslaughter, was postponed un
til Wednesday. Anderson was In
dicted for the death of Mrs. C. G.
Thurlow who was killed in an
automobile accident on the Pud
ding river bridge near Aurora
in December.
fident the ten year record of no
rain at spring . opening would
stand another year.
All Salem dealers will be repre
sented at the automobile show
which will be held on High street
between Court and State. Over 40
cars of all makes will be on exhib
it, including an English Austin
and two Fiats displayed by L. A
Scheelar. Herrall-Owens plana to
show films in addition to their
cars while other dealers report
they are arranging special exhib
its. -
Plenty of music is promised by
Cliff Harold who has secured the
participation of five top - notch
bands. They are:
Salem high school band, Gordon
Finlay, director; Master Bread
Junior band, Joe Hassenstab, di
rector; Willamette university's
band. Ralph Kohlgren, director!
Salem . Municipal ban d, H. N.
Stoudenmeyer, director,, and the
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Demands Lisht
As to Method
i . .. -
Of Repayment
Extra ' Congress Session
Called by Cardenas;
- Loan Is Sought
Relations Between Two
Nations Described as
Gravely Strained
MEXICO CITY, March 29-P)-
A d States protest against
expropriation of Mexico's foreign-
owned oil industry tonight was
followed quickly by a call from
Pres. Lazaro Cardenas for an "ur
gent" session of the Mexican con
gress. With relations between the two
nations taking a grave turn, tha
Mexican president called for an
extraordinary session to consider
an internal loan of 100,000,008
pesos (about $20,000,000) to re
pay oil companies whose $400,-
000,000 properties were expro
priated.
In addition he asked modifi
cation of Mexico's export and im
port duties which were raised
sharply in January, and were tha
subject of informal American
protests.
Legislation to regulate admin
istration ot the oil industry and
reform of the electoral and civil
codes to give equal rights to
women also were urged in Car
denas' call. '
The president acted soon after
United States Ambassador Jose-
phus Daniels presented the stiff
American protest.
The American envoy declined
to reveal whether the protest was
oral or written.
Note Delivered by
Daniels, Reported
A high Mexican official de
scribed the communication, as, a
note delivered by Daniels to For- -'
eign Minister Eduardo Hay.
It was understood the protest
had nothing of the nature of an
ultimatum, but was energetic in
demanding that Mexico clarify
how she expected to pay for ex
propriated oil properties.
The Mexican government . T&
described, as concerned over the
unexpected vigor of the United
States stand, and officials imme
diately started drafting a reply.
Daniels disclosed he reported to
Secretary Hull by telephone after
talking to the Mexican foreign
minister about the "seriousness"
of Uhe situation.
British Minister Owen St. Clair
O'Malley, who last week told
Mexico that Britain "reserved her
rights," declined to comment on
the United States move.
It was stated authoritatively
that the Mexican government
feels the energetic stand of tho
United States was due largely to
British pressure.
The government also was un
derstood to feel that suspension
of silver purchases by the United
States came as a result of British
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Purge of Russian
Venturers Asked
MOSCOW, March 29-(P)-The
soviet government disclosed to
day that half the soviet fleet of
icebreakers and arctic merchant
ships was in danger In polar seas
and demanded -a purge among
those trying to conquer the frozen
north.
At the same time, a terse com
munique in a provincial newspa
per announced execution of U.
Kulumbetoff, former president of
Kazakhstan, middle As la tie re
public, and IS others, v
They were tried secretly at
Alma Ata from March 6 (o March
12 on charges of treason similar
to those for which Nikolai Bo
charln, famed soviet editor, and
17 others were shot after a pub
lic mass trial In Moscow. .
Mayor of Seattle
Is Critically 111
LOS ANGELES, March 29-OP)
-Mayor John F. Dore of Seattle,
long a prominent figure in state
of Washington labor and politi
cal affairs, was tn a critical con
dition tonight of bronchial pneu
monia at the Queen of Angels
hospital.
'Dore was taken from a train
aboard which he was retaining
from Phoenix, Aris., to Seattle
yesterday morning. He waa har
ried, to a hospital where physi
cians pronounced him "seriously
if not desperately I1L;
Yakima Publisher Dies
YAKIMA, March 29-(ff)-W, W.
Robertson, owner and publisher ot
the Yakima Morning Herald and
the Yakima Dally Republic, died
at 11:30 tonight of bronchial
pneumonia and complications, llm
had been a newspaper publisher?
here for 40 years.